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Wellington City

This article is about the City of Wellington. For a more general overview, see the main article Wellington.

For former football club Wellington City F.C., see Wellington United

Territorial Authority
Wellington City
Population:	179,466 (2006 census)
Land area:	290.11 km² (112.01 sq mi)
Extent:	North to Tawa; includes Makara and Ohariu
Coat of arms:	-	Mayor:	Kerry Prendergast
Regional Council:	Greater Wellington Regional Council

Wellington city is an area in New Zealand administered by the Wellington City Council, one of several territorial authorities in the Wellington region. Wellington city extends as far north as Linden, and includes the rural areas of Makara and Ohariu. It is New Zealand's sixth largest city behind the Auckland cities and Christchurch.

Wellington attained city status in 1886. Wellington is the capital of New Zealand and New Zealand's Parliament and Government are located in Wellington.

For a list of past mayors, see Mayor of Wellington.

See here for further information on the Wellington urban area.

Suburbs

There are roughly sixty officially defined suburbs in Wellington city. Grouped by the wards used to elect the City Council

Some areas, while officially being part of a larger suburb (or several suburbs), are considered by some to be separate communities. The officially defined suburbs are:

Communities of Common Interest

Courtenay Place; Courtenay Quarter; Cuba Quarter; Lambton Quarter; Thorndon Quarter

Essentially international and domestic tourist destinations created by the Wellington City-funded Positively Wellington Tourism, but also now are communities self-grouped into common interests such as sport, entertainment, arts, architecture, finance, specialist shopping, creative business, archives, museums, performance spaces, etc ref

Educational facilities

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington's oldest university, has its main campus in the hill suburb of Kelburn overlooking the centre of the city. It also has two downtown campuses, and a campus in the western suburb of Karori. It was established as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.

The senate of the University of New Zealand was located in Wellington until its dissolution in 1961.

There is also a branch of Massey University in Wellington, taking over the former Wellington Polytechnic. The campus is based at the former national museum (the Dominion Museum), which has been removed to the Te Papa ("Our Place") museum. The University of Otago also has a Wellington connection, as the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences is a department of that university.

Wellington Institute of Technology caters to Wellington and neighbouring Petone and the Hutt Valley. It is one of the largest polytechnics in the region and was established in 1904.

Numerous primary and secondary educational institutions are located throughout the city, see List of schools in Wellington, New Zealand.

There are a number of museums and galleries in Wellington including Te Papa, the City Gallery and the Museum of Wellington City & Sea. The latter two are run by the Wellington Museums Trust which also run a number of other facilities.